Instances›AWS EC2›m7i-flex›m7i-flex.4xlarge
Compute
vCPUs16
Memory64 GiB
Mem / vCPU4.00 GiB
ProcessorXeon Scalable
Clock speed3.5 GHz
Architecturex86_64
Storage
TypeEBS only
Bandwidth10,000 Mbps
Throughput1250 MB/s
IOPS40,000
Networking
PerformanceUp to 12.5 Gigabit
Max ENIs8
IPv6Yes
GPUNone
Family sizes
m7i-flex.large2 vCPU · 8 GiB
m7i-flex.xlarge4 vCPU · 16 GiB
m7i-flex.2xlarge8 vCPU · 32 GiB
m7i-flex.4xlarge16 vCPU · 64 GiB
m7i-flex.8xlarge32 vCPU · 128 GiB
m7i-flex.12xlarge48 vCPU · 192 GiB
m7i-flex.16xlarge64 vCPU · 256 GiB
m7i-flex.4xlarge

m7i-flex.4xlarge is AWS's general-purpose EC2 size at 16 vCPU and 64 GiB. It runs on Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) at 3.5 GHz, and AWS introduced it in August 2023. On Rackspace Spot the same shape is gp.vs2.2xlarge — 16 vCPU, 64 GiB, matched on both dimensions, about 95% below the US East (N. Virginia) on-demand rate.

Pricing by region
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RegionAWS on-demandAWS Spot1-yr Reserved3-yr ReservedRackspace SpotYou save
US East, N. Virginia$0.766$0.274$0.507$0.347$0.041
$0.725 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$0.041
US Central, Dallasno AWS region$0.051
Hong Kong$1.053$0.697$0.478$0.011
$1.042 savings
Sydney, Australia$0.958$0.441$0.633$0.434$0.161
$0.797 savings
London, UK$0.886$0.093$0.585$0.403$0.221
$0.665 savings
US West, San Jose$0.894$0.292$0.590$0.407$0.151
$0.743 savings
US Central, Dallas 2no AWS region$0.001
US East, N. Virginia 2$0.766$0.274$0.507$0.347$0.151
$0.615 savings
When to use it
Good for
  • ●Development, staging and CI environments
  • ●Small to mid-size relational databases
  • ●Backend services with no single dominant resource
  • ●Workloads that fit inside 64 GiB of RAM
  • ●Parallel work that can occupy 16 vCPU
  • ●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at Up to 12.5 Gigabit
Avoid if
  • ●The working set needs more than 64 GiB of RAM
  • ●GPU or FPGA acceleration is needed
  • ●Sustained full-core CPU load. A compute-optimized family costs less per unit of work.
  • ●More than 4.00 GiB of RAM per vCPU is needed — that ratio is fixed for the whole family
  • ●The work is single-threaded. Most of these 16 vCPU would sit idle.
  • ●Local NVMe or instance-store disk is a hard requirement
$559/mo on AWS on-demand against $30/mo on Rackspace Spot for the equivalent — market-priced, not list-priced.
  • Spot sells spare capacity at market prices. It is the cheapest compute on the internet.
  • Prices are set by supply and demand. You pay what the market decides.
  • Compute is delivered as fully managed Kubernetes. All infrastructure is taken care of.
  • Egress costs $0.01/GB after the free allowance. AWS charges $0.09/GB.
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